The Creation of the Party
In the wake of the assasination of Malcolm X... In October of 1966, in Oakland California, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The original purpose that party was started was to monitor and patrol African American neighborhoods and protect them from police brutality. It eventually developed into a Marxist revolutionary group who called for arming of African Americans, freeing all African Americans from jail, and compensation for centuries of racism, discrimination, and torture from Whites.However, they would achieve this goal by any means, which includes violence. Thus making them one of the first organizations to militantly fight for the ethical rights of African Americans